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If you had the good fortune to read National Review in the 1970s when it featured great writers and thinkers you would have encountered James Burnham
1 posted on 07/10/2020 5:19:06 PM PDT by Pelham
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2 posted on 07/10/2020 5:21:13 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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“... provoking British academic Binoy Kampmark to label Burnham as “the first neoconservative.”

A technicality. Burnham made the journey, but he was by no means “neocon”. He was often right, occasionally wrong, and always challenging. He provided the framework for people like Joe Sobran, Paul Gottfried, Sam Francis, and others who ended up being right about pretty much everything.

He would not be welcome at National Review in the Current Year. That goes for much of the conservative movement until about 1995.


3 posted on 07/10/2020 5:39:50 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
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Burnham gave the impression of being highly educated and of having arrived at conservative views through experience. His book Suicide of the West made a deep impression on me.
4 posted on 07/10/2020 6:25:22 PM PDT by Rockingham
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Read his book “Suicide of the West” written in 1964, with the subtitle “ the definitive analysis of the pathology of liberalism”. The writing was on the wall then, he saw it and put it in a book. Prophetic.


8 posted on 07/11/2020 5:42:21 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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